Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation

The Piquetero Movement in Argentina

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6561969
AutoresFederico M Rossi (0000-0001-7375-0660), Frederico M Rossi
Ano2017
Páginas340
Data de publicação2017-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPoor's Struggle for Political Incorporation (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316273180
ISBN9781316273180
Open LibraryOL28637477M
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas71

This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation into a more inclusive and equal society. The piquetero (picketer) movement is the largest movement of unemployed people in the world. This movement has transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade. Rossi argues that the movement has been part of a long-term struggle by the poor for socio-political participation in the polity after having been excluded by authoritarian regimes and neoliberal reforms. He conceptualizes this process as a wave of incorporation, exploring the characteristics of this major redefinition of politics in Latin America.

Argentina · Economic conditions · Politics and government · Economic policy · History · Labor movement · Neoliberalism · Political activity · politics and government · Poor · Social movements · Social policy